Colombia Caves on Illegals, CIA Points to COVID Lab Leak, Trump Won't Let Bass Off the Hook
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
First, Jim and Greg recap the short-lived trade war with Colombia. Tensions flared when Colombia’s president initially refused to allow repatriation flights carrying criminal illegals to land in the country. In response, President Trump swiftly threatened major tariffs and other diplomatic penalties. Colombia quickly reversed course, agreeing to Trump’s demands and allowing the flights to proceed.
Next, Jim celebrates the CIA’s acknowledgment of what many had suspected all along: that the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic was a lab leak from Wuhan, China. Most of us have known this for a long time, but the Biden-era CIA infamously decided it was unclear how it all started. But that doesn't mean this is over. Jim says these new conclusions should lead to important new questions.
Finally, Jim and Greg discuss Trump’s recent call for faster action to help Los Angeles-area residents who lost their homes in wildfires. During a public forum with LA Mayor Karen Bass, Trump urged local officials to streamline bureaucracy, allowing fire victims to access their property and begin debris removal to make way for rebuilding.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:05.1 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.8 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.3 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.4 | All good martinis for you today. |
| 0:20.2 | And Jim, we're starting to record here a little bit before noon on Monday. |
| 0:24.6 | Donald Trump's been president for a week. |
| 0:26.6 | It doesn't feel like Donald Trump's been president for a week. |
| 0:30.6 | A lot has changed in the last seven days, wouldn't you say? |
| 0:33.6 | Greg, my nagging fear is that we are recording this around midday, a little bit, late |
| 0:40.9 | morning on Monday. |
| 0:43.0 | People will hear it when it's all up and outloaded and gets into their podcast machines. |
| 0:47.6 | People might be like, what trade thing with Columbia? |
| 0:50.4 | I missed it. |
| 0:52.2 | The news cycle is moving so fast. It's like we're on fast forward. |
| 0:56.7 | And so things that seem like a really big deal may not seem like a big deal. That's how fast things are going. |
| 1:02.2 | No, it's incredible. So yeah, we're going to be talking about the very brief trade war with |
| 1:06.8 | Columbia yesterday. We're going to be talking about something we already knew, but the new Trump |
| 1:11.4 | administration has basically confirmed as it relates to COVID. And then what seems now like about a |
| 1:16.9 | month ago, Trump's visit to L.A., which was just on Friday, dealing with the aftermath of the wildfires |
| 1:22.5 | there. But let's dive into what happened yesterday. It's Sunday yesterday, and apparently a word comes to Donald Trump |
| 1:29.9 | that the Colombian government is not going to accept flights of military planes of criminal |
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